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Monday, May 4, 2015

Mexico Week 59 -- With Him, All Things Are Possible

Dear sweet family...I
have pretty much no time today!!

Hermano Lopez was
transferred and Hermana Villa is my new companion!I’m still anxiously awaiting her arrival! She
also got here the same time as Hermana Gonzalez and Hermana Lopez! Ha! Ha! I
will be companions will all of the Hermanas from their generation!

This morning began
at 2 a.m. so that we could be at the bus station by 4:30am for
Hermana Lopez’s bus. Then the sister training leaders, Hermana Guevarra and I
headed to their house to sleep a little more, study and start P-Day.We are all walking zombies! So as we leave
the house at 3:30am this morning, Hermana Lopez tells me, no worries,
there’s always a taxi here.Um, except
this early in the morning!We found
nothing. We are walking the streets
at 3:30 in the morning looking for a taxi and after about 30 minutes,
we finally found one!!Goodness, the
adventures of the mission!

I am excited for my
new companion and know that the Lord always has a plan.I’m learning to trust Him more and more. I
know that the Lord needs Hermana Villa and I here in Jardines for some great
reasons!

So I won’t have time
to you all my stories until next week, but I just want y’all to know that I’m
happy. Sometimes I struggle.Sometimes I
doubt.But overall, I am happy and
learning and growing so much. On Monday I was pondering a lot about some
letters I had received and also our President’s weekly message to us as
missionaries. I felt the Spirit so strongly and I know that I need to change. I
started to talk with more and more people in the street.We started to look for more new investigators.I was constantly praying.The minute a negative thought entered my
mind, I started praying. As I read again this morning the talk about
consecrated missionaries, I felt inspired and know that the Lord has a plan. I
have to be patient and diligent and just keep working until we start seeing
results.

On Saturday we had a
rougher day!We had been giving it
everything we had, but just not finding people at home.We arrived home exhausted!I showered to just shake it off. I had a good
cry and I remember thinking, I can’t do this ... not with my own weaknesses,
and with how small the ward is, and my companion .. these things are combining
for such a slow progress of the work, I just can’t. I went to sleep listening to “I Know that my
Redeemer Lives” and it was the first thing I played Sunday morning when I woke
up.During church, I felt the Spirit so
strongly and as I took the sacrament.I
felt so much peace.

I don´t tell y’all
this story so that you worry or anything like that. I want to share it because sometimes we all
think we can’t.My mom jokes that being
a follower of the Savior is hard work, and it is so true.It is hard and it requires sacrifice on our
part.We all have those moments when
things don’t seem to be going the way we want them to, or moving fast enough in
the direction we want them to move.We
might even have a good cry in the shower and feel like giving up, like we can’t
do it anymore.It’s not true. With the Savior, we can. I know it! I feel it
even when sometimes I forget. I love this gospel and the peace it brings. He knows the path and He will guide us along,
if we just trust Him.